I was just 20 by a week, and Jim was 21. We were married by Judge Thorpe at the court house in Olympia, Washington at about 7:30 PM.

Jim’s parents and a friend had driven all the way from Iowa to attend the wedding (parents do that sort of thing) of their only son. We didn’t know they were coming, and it was quite a surprise when they drove in the driveway of my parent’s house in Tumwater a couple days before the wedding.